A Herscher school district student gets onto an electric school bus in Kankakee County on Dec. 17, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Illinois is third in the country for electric school ...

In 1930 the electric streetcar ruled Chicago. Though most people didn ... but was not tied to tracks — the trolley bus. These two types of buses were used as extensions and supplements to ...

The seats and windows squeak and rattle just like a regular diesel bus, but no one seems to notice the high-pitched whine of the electric motor that makes it go. That’s just what Chicago Transit ...

CHANNAHON, Ill. (CBS) -- Electric bus maker Lion Electric is suspending operations at its facility southwest of Chicago. At the time, Lion Electric said it planned to manufacture 20,000 electric ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file photo Share The Chicago Transit Authority and Pace could soon double the size of their electric bus fleets, thanks to a large state grant to pay for 57 additional battery ...

(E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) In Illinois, schools used EPA backing to order 609 electric buses. That’s second only to California among U.S. states. Of these, 132 had been delivered.

This saw the beginning of the demise of the Chicago system with the first major closure. Centre left: the Queen Mary, the first articulated trolley built in the United States, built by Twin Coach. It ...

Since the 1990s many countries have increased, or reintroduced, the use of both trams and trolley buses. Switching to electric cars will not reduce road congestion, ribbon development, nor urban ...